An online tool to revolutionise how we run our homes in an increasingly complex digital world.

A Chimni Log is an online tool that will revolutionise how we run our homes in this increasingly complex digital world. It aggregates all the online accounts related to your home (eg utilities, insurance cos) into a single dashboard. It stores data, documents, certificates, manuals, warranties etc in a secure but searchable store; and it manages all the major life stages (purchase, DIY, maintenance, sale) with simple management templates.

Chimni News

Chimni Communities Template Adds A Minecraft Project
We have added a new project to our Communities Template to help our local groups encourage young people to engage with them. This new project is intended to focus young minds on the design, planning & construction issues in their local areas by recreating a part of the local area in Minecraft, the online PC game that claims 100M global users....

Cardiff University School of Journalism has written up the 'House History' project launched by one of the residents groups trialling the Chimni Community Web Template - Bedford Park Residents Association (BPRA) in West London. The project is helping local community members to research their own ‘house histories’ and providing chimni logs to capture the information. The the CUSJ 'Centre for...

Chimni Project Lead - Nigel Walley - presented the Chimni concept at the New London Architecture breakfast session 'Smart Thinking For London's Homes'. The talk focussed on how smart technologies will change London’s homes; how can technology make homes in the capital more efficient in terms of their design, their management, performance and use, and how they are planned for?
Nigel Walley...

A new residents association - the Glebe Estate in Chiswick, London - has joined the Chimni Residents's Association trial programme. Its new web site - www.glebeW4.org.ukk - is the latest to use the Chimni Residents template that is one of the core distribution vehicles for the wider Chimni initiative.
Note On The Residents' Association Template Trial
The Chimni Residents' Associatoin Template is...

Chimni has joined the Government's BIM4Housing Initiative intended to help the housebuilding industry in the UK adopt new Building Information Management techniques*. BIM4Housing is a cross-industry group open to all organisations involved in the design, construction, management and delivery of housing, both private and affordable. Membership of BIM4Housing is reflective of the sector, involving...

Bedford Park was the first 'garden suburb' and it is impossible to follow any history of British house building or UK architecture in general without stumbling across references to it. Sir John Betjeman, who founded the Victorian Society, called Bedford Park “the most significant suburb built in the last century.” Having redefined how we were to live in suburbs in the 19th and 20th century,...